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Lakhs of Maharashtra authorities workers on Wednesday continued their strike on a second day to demand restoration of the Previous Pension Scheme (OPS), with the hospitals being the worst hit as a result of agitation.
The staff rejected the enchantment made by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde a day earlier than to withdraw the strike and maintain discussions with the federal government.
On Monday, Shinde had additionally introduced the structure of a committee of senior retired bureaucrats to look into the demand that the OPS be restored.
Vishwas Katkar, the convenor of a committee of almost 35 unions of state authorities, semi-government workers and lecturers, mentioned workers throughout 36 districts joined the continuing strike.
On Tuesday, workers of civic our bodies in rural areas had joined the strike, he added.
Katkar mentioned the state authorities workers had agitated over the identical subject in 2018, following which a committee was fashioned. However its report was not adopted up, he mentioned, including that one other strike on the problem had taken place in 2022.
Because the strike entered a second day, medical doctors at authorities hospitals struggled as a lot of the nursing employees participated within the strike.
Chief of Opposition within the Maharashtra Meeting Ajit Pawar mentioned the well being equipment has collapsed whereas different important companies are additionally affected.
Talking within the Legislative Meeting, Pawar requested the federal government to intervene to finish the stir.
“Within the final two days of the strike, the well being equipment has utterly collapsed. The incidence of H3N2 flu is rising and the strike is impacting frequent residents. At one hospital, greater than 150 surgical procedures are pending. The method of panchnama (spot inspection) of (crop losses) following the current unseasonal rains has stopped,” he mentioned.
Sumitra Tote of the Maharashtra Nursing Affiliation mentioned its branches in 30 districts are taking part within the strike.
Hospitals try to fill the hole by hiring outdoors nurses and roping in trainee nurses, medical interns and college students, a supply mentioned.
Because the nurses, ward boys and cleansing employees of the Authorities Medical Faculty and Hospital and Nagpur Municipal Company Hospital, main hospitals in Vidarbha, continued the strike, companies have been affected with deliberate surgical procedures being postponed.
Surgical procedures have been additionally postponed on the Authorities Medical Faculty Hospital in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (previously Aurangabad) which serves a hub to eight districts in Marathwada.
The administration of Sassoon Common Hospital, Pune, mentioned it appealed to the nurses and different medical employees who have been on strike to renew work. In response to the enchantment, 60 to 65 % of Class four workers resumed work, mentioned Dr Sanjeev Thakur, the dean.
On Tuesday 99 % of nurses have been on strike, however after an enchantment by the administration, 10 % of them resumed work, he mentioned. Emergency surgical procedures and different medical companies should not affected as they’ve performed correct planning, Dr Thakur added.
Within the Meeting, Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis mentioned the OPS was scrapped on October 31, 2005, when late Vilasrao Deshmukh (of Congress) was the chief minister and Jayant Patil (current state NCP chief) was the finance minister.
Authorities workers ought to get ample pension advantages, and a committee of three retired senior officers — Subodh Kumar, Sudhir Shrivastava and Okay P Bakshi — has been fashioned to check the problem, he mentioned.
The opposition ought to urge the putting workers to withdraw the strike, Fadnavis mentioned. PTI PR MR SPK AW CLS NR KRK KRK KRK
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